Surgeons have removed large amounts of polyurethane insulation foam from the stomach of a teenager who complained about abdominal pain. Medics at the Regional Children's Clinical Hospital in the city…
A horrified woman discovered surgeons had left a pair of tweezers inside her after an operation when she set off a metal detector as she visited her husband in prison.…
Amazed medics saved a 10-month-old baby girl from choking to death after finding a crucifix lodged in the infant's throat. Mum Mari Carmen Sejami Rosas rushed her daughter to Victor…
A 64-year-old woman was shocked to discover she had been living with a spider and its molted skin inside her ear for several days before she sought medical attention. The…
A young woman named Justine from Germany has saved the life of an unrelated Canadian named Justin with a stem cell donation. Justine, 26, from Bassum, in the German state…
A one-and-a-half-year-old boy's life was saved by a team of surgeons who removed 15 magnets from his intestines that he accidentally swallowed, causing a septic shock. The tot, not named,…
An 80-year-old woman has been living with a three-centimetre-long needle in her brain that was intended to kill her at birth, amazed medics have discovered. The woman, who has not…
Amazed medics have removed an astonishing hoard of metal objects from a man's stomach after he collapsed in agony at a hospital in India. The 40-year-old patient, who has not…
A 60-year-old woman's doctors were stunned after they discovered a three-inch leech lodged in her windpipe during a test procedure to see what had been causing her sore throat and…
An Australian patient has told how he flew half way round the world to get his crooked teeth fixed in Croatia. John Park, from Melbourne, had abandoned the idee of…